Another analyst confirms new iPhone to come with 4" 1136x640 pixels screen and 500 nits brightness

0.phoneArena
06 Jun 2012, 02:30posted on

His analysis why Apple is doing this states that there is user experience to be gained with having a larger display, but 4.3" and above displays seemed the tipping point for Apple when phones become unwieldy and requiring "visibly larger" batteries.
The 4" size design with the above specs won as the perfect tradeoff between comfortable one-hand use, which Apple is very fond of, maximum app compatibility, and battery life, notes the analyst...

If the 4" screen rumor is true, I can't help but to wonder who made that decision. Is this Tim Cook listening to the cries for bigger screens or did Steve Jobs come to his senses and included it in that 5 year plan we heard about. Either way it's a good move, but why be frighten by .3 more inches when other manufacturers are making 5"+ screens? How long wil Apple and Microsoft allow Android OEMs to have 100% of those customers? Clearly consumers have shown there is a demand for it, so supply it!

And please, don't call it "The New iPhone"! "The New" distinction is kinda silly seeing as though there will be another new iPhone coming next year.

ITS SO STUPID. What f**king moron decided that making the phone LONGER would solve everyone's problem. Is it so hard to make the damn phone just a little wider and a little longer? God Apple is so stupid.

This phone is going to look retarded like that. It already looks retarded in the pictures.

Why can't apps be optimized for any screen resolution like in Android devices? Seriously I have yet to use an app with two ugly black bars on the sides of the screen. So why should iPhone users have to suffer with them? And iPhone users attack Android for fragmentation.

Actually Siri only works on the iPhone 4S, that's fragmentation. It's a lot easier to make sure apps work on 3 devices (because Apple won't update the OG iPhone and the iPhone 3G to iOS 5.1.1) than it is to make sure apps work on hundreds of devices.

Yep Apple does a great job at keeping their devices up to date. Then again it's very easy for them considering that they only have 3 currently supported pones, which were all manufactured by them. On the other hand, Android has hundreds of devices manufactured mainly by 5 companies. That makes updating phones a lot more difficult.

That's not exactly true. There apps I can't download on my OG iPad because I don't have a camera.

Also Apple hasn't allowed Mac users using Snowleapard to use iCloud. Why??? Greed of course! By making Lion required for iCloud usage, those who have Leapard, Snowleapard, or even Tiger have to either upgrade their software, which is a minimum of $30. Hardware upgrades are often necessary as well in order just to run the new software. So there is a lot of fragmentation with Apple that may not be as obvious because of these kinds of situations.

Probably sounds like non sense to you because you know nothing about anything tech. You're a wannabe Apple fan who only owns an iPhone, and you have no idea what the requirements are for being in the Apple Ecosystem. Where as I have had to upgrade my RAM and upgrade to Snowleapard just to activate my iPad because ...IT WAS A REQUIREMENT. And now they want to force people to upgrade Lion just to use iCloud.

I tried to dumb it down as much as I could. But if you still dont get it, maybe you should try remedial courses.

And that's exactly why I haven't. My OG iPad is possibly my last. But who knows, maybe if Tim Cook can help Apple stop the a$$hole behavior like suing competitors because they can't compete, and start making compelling products again... I may support them, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon.

I agree. The phone does not have the same visual appeal with a 4" 16:9 aspect ratio. It could be a big screw up for Apple. Too long and skinny. I hope they stick to 3:2 aspect ratio and go to 4" screen, or even 4.25 would be great.

I agree.. The iPhone 4s' bezel is too large.. The resolution is weird.. 640x1316 WTF? Is that innovation?! lol.. I think they are too worried to decrease the 326 ppi "Retina" display that they all bragging about.. Look how Sony Xperia S display, 4.3 in., 720p resolution with eye popping 342 ppi..

I know it, that's the disadvantage when you don't build your own components.. lol

I agree. The resolution seems very random. It seems like it will be impossible to properly convert a video. It seems like there is a meeting every year where engineers ask themselves "what is the least we can do to call it a new model?"

This analyst(s) provided theory that older apps will be shown with black bars on sides.

THIS IS THE KIND OF UN-ELEGANT SOLUTION THAT APPLE WOULD NEVER DO.

It just wastes too much space for nothing, given the fact that they think to extend the size of iPhone in general! This is totally unergonomic!

Instead, I think they will use extra 176 vertical pixels to incorporate virtual home button - like I visualized in my concept render. That way they will use extra pixels in a smarter way when we use older apps, and use widescreen for everything else. And of course, this way the physical dimensions of iPhone could be preserved, with increased screen size and easy one-hand use.

another iFail ??? what i love about android is that no mattter how big or small you screen is, it will fit on ur phone from edge to edge of screen !!! apple cant do that for " The New iPhone " ??? Lame...

Taco, touch screens existed before the iPhone, web browsers definitely existed before the iPhone, and don't tell me that you're that idiotic to think that apple invented the phone. Using your iDiot logic, didn't apple copy all the preceding phones by making calls and sending texts, also they copied LG prada's design, and copied the SII with Siri, because the SII (which launched before the 4S), had a modified VLINGO, which apple copied to make siri (Double tap home button to launch). I PRESENT TO YOU, iDiot LOGIC. don't make me go down to your level again, it hurts being this stupid, even if for 5 minutes.

27.angelesmec (unregistered)

major fault :
if the iphone 5 will have this type of a display if would be hard for the user to navigate on the phone cause the back button on iphone is somewhat far away on the top left corner and if this design will be used in the final product i will be a massive fail!

references to the LG Prada are so 2007... saying like specs already exist in Android.. also 2007... for those slow people... Android and iOs are different OS.. like China and the US. there is lots of stuff Chine has that the US is barely getting and you don't hear Chinese saying that they had it for quite some time.. its annoying and that's how fandroids sound.. please have class fandroids..

For those slow eyesheep people, including you galli, you obviously knew android and ios are different ios but still keep on bashing, trolling here in pa, against android. Accept the truth that android already surpasses your beloved iphone, in terms of sales and market shares. Apple is not the company capable of creating best products, there's a lot of other companies also. Sad to say they stop it once they were threatened. Afraid of real competition, right?! Have a class too ok?!

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